Michael Branton
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Michael Branton was one of four faculty who designed and founded the Computer Science major at Stetson in 1983, and is a former chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He founded the Digital Arts program at Stetson in 1995 and served as its first Director. He has twice been president of the Faculty Senate, chairing both the Senate committee on Academic Quality, which made recommendations for improving academic quality at Stetson, approved by the board of trustees in 2001, and the Senate committee which produced the Senate whitepaper for the incoming administration at Stetson concerning needed improvements and priorities for the University in 2009.
He also chaired the College of Arts and Science's committee that was responsible for designing the College's move to the Course Unit System and a new General Education program in 2007-2008. Despite these things, what he really enjoys is teaching.
Education
- M.S. and Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- B.S., Florida Tech
Research
- Dynamical Systems
- Computer Graphics
- Web Application Development
Courses
- Introduction to Computing
- Introduction to Computer Science I and II
- Computer Graphics I and II
- Web Application Development
- Software Development II
- Algorithms
- Discrete Mathematics
- Calculus I, II and III
- Linear Algebra
- Differential Equations
- Real Analysis I and II
RECENT STUDENT Research PROJECTS
- Character Animation and Gesture-based Interaction in an Immersive Virtual Environment Using Skeletal Tracking with the Microsoft Kinect with Brittany Alkire
- Automatic Discovery of Categories in Video with Chris Reynia
- Augmented Reality for Later Playback of Videos with Jordan Stratton
- Applications of Neural Networks and Hidden Markov Models to Gesture Recognition Through Head Tracking with Zeb Long
- Finger Tracking and Gesture Interfacing Using the Nintendo Wiimote with Ross Williams
